Re: Bug#57218: /usr/local erased

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

* "Torsten" == Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> wrote:

Torsten> This new package does not include /usr/local into the
Torsten> data.tar.gz anymore so it seems like dpkg decides to remove
Torsten> /usr/local if it is a symlink as dpkg think it was installed
Torsten> by the old gs package.

[ Packaging manual ]

1.If the package is being upgraded, call: 

                   new-preinst upgrade old-version


Can this be used to abort with a warning, if upgrading from the faulty 
version?

Ciao,
        Martin